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Holbein in the hague. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)
Hans Holbein the Younger was born in Augsburg in 1497 or 1498, the second son of the artist Hans Holbein the Elder He became an apprentice in Basel in 1515 and four years later joined the Basel artists' guild Zum Himmel as a master He received his first important commission, a portrait of the burgomaster Jakob Meyer zum Hasen and his wife Dorothea Kannengiesser, when be was only twenty years old.
In search of inspiration and commissions Holbein traveled to France and on to England via the southern Netherlands. For the rest of his life he moved between Switzerland and England, where he became an important fixture at the court of Henry VIII. He painted the king, members of his family courtiers such as Sir Thomas More, and decorations for Whitehall Palace in London. In Basel he continued to decorate the Town Hall as well as paint portraits ...
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...less well-known formative years. 'Hans Holbein: The Years in Basel' could be described...man' and sometime mayor of the city, Jakob Meyer zum Hasen. Another of these early patrons...of 1516, depicting his great patron Jakob Meyer and Meyer's second wife, Dorothea...
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...Zwingenberger, Jeanette. The Shadow of Death in the Work of Hans Holbein the Younger. Parkstone, dist. by Books Internat. 2000...illus. bibliog. ISBN 1-85995-4928. $40. FINE ARTS Hans Holbein the younger is well known as a 16th-century portraitist...
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- Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly October 6, 1997 700+ words
...95 ISBN 1-85799-880-4 As the subtitle of this intriguing speculative biography suggests, very little is known about Hans Holbein. Born in Augsburg in 1497, he encountered a Europe on the verge of great change. Perhaps he would have been less aware...
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire April 19, 2006 700+ words
(From AP Worldstream) Byline: HANNS NEUERBOURG Hans Holbein the Younger stayed on as a court painter to Henry VIII even though the monarch executed both of the artist's main English patrons...
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...about a possible fine. She disengaged him from the picture and soothed his nerves in a neighboring room. The painting, Hans Holbein the Younger's Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb, 1521, is a life-size depiction of a supine, nearly naked corpse...
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(From Guardian Unlimited) Hans Holbein the Younger, born in Augsburg, southern Germany, in 1497 or 1498, is without doubt one of the greatest artists of the 16th...
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HOLBEIN, HANS (illus.) & STEPHANIE BUCK & JOCHEN SANDER (text). Hans Holbein the Younger: Painter at the Court of Henry VIII. Thames & Hudson, dist. by Norton. 2004. 184p. illus. bibliog. index...
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- Magazine article from: The Art Bulletin Smith, David R. September 1, 2005 700+ words
Early in 1527 Hans Holbein painted two portraits of Sir Thomas More, the great English humanist and statesman who had become his host and patron when he...
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...Younger (Fig. 1). Published in the magazine in March by Sir Roy Strong, it was hailed as a rediscovered late portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger, previously known only from copies. The panel had turned up at Christie's in 1974, over-painted and inscribed...
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- Magazine article from: Booklist Olson, Ray December 1, 1997 700+ words
Batschmann, Oskar and Griener, Pascal. by Cecilia Hurley and Pascal Griener. 1997. 255p. index. illus. Princeton, $55 (0-691-01743-3). DDC:759.43 Sumptuous surveys, scholarly yet accessible, mark the quincentennial and the tricentennial of their respective subjects. Holbein (the younger; his father
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